The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calls for an “effective, inclusive and intercultural dialogue” following the events in Jujuy

After the Government of Jujuy approved the constitutional reform, the security forces carried out this noon a brutal repression with rubber bullets and tear gas to the demonstrators in the vicinity of the local Legislature. Given this, from Washington D.C., the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), published a press release expressing concern about the “actions being carried out to dissolve the protests in the province of Jujuy in Argentina, one of the provinces with the largest self-recognized indigenous population.” The statement calls on “the State to respect the right to freedom of expression, the inter-American standards of the use of force, and to carry out an effective, inclusive and intercultural dialogue process, in which the rights of trade unions and indigenous peoples are respected.” The IACHR states that Argentina must follow the path of “transparent and voluntary” dialogue, which includes local traditional authorities, “in order to address the demands of indigenous peoples.” In addition, it invites “the local authorities of the Province of Jujuy to dialogue in a broad and constructive manner with the teachers’ unions and unions mobilized around the protests related to teachers’ wage demands and the provincial constitutional reform.”

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